| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 pages
...Qeanoeis he never feems to decline the practice or lament the ncceffity. He appears to have been nore delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment, which was probably, like bis immorality and his merriment, artificial and conflrained, the •JitA... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against ''his interest. There... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment." In this animated passage, that noble spirit of independence for which this great writer was all his... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment." In this animated passage, that noble spirit of independence for which this great writer was all his... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with th6 fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...to decline the pratcice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...retaliation. The extreme flattery of Dryden's dedications have been objected to him, as a fault of an opposite description ; and perhaps no writer has equalled...words of submissive style which still precede the subscription of an ordinary letter. It is probable, that Dryden considered his panegyrics as merely... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to eneomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
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